false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170368861m/50396.jpg 50396 6 '...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career. 2495740 1818 Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics) total:1476|5:370|4:551|3:457|2:88|1:10| 1476 5611 1904 96 5 1 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 10:05:32 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 16:32:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 22:13:30 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 20:18:13 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 11:29:01 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 08:57:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Dec 05 09:36:38 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 12:19:07 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 20 06:19:03 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 11:34:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 09:45:40 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 21:32:05 -0700 2008 Northanger Abbey (NA) is Austen's first novel, and a kind of take on the popular gothic novels of her day where the heroine faces things lik...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 07:32:17 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 17:23:53 -0700 2008
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